📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Located at the gates of the Drôme Provençale (south part of Drôme department), Châteauneuf-du-Rhône is a village built around the medieval town, whose gates and ramparts remain. Attached to the past of their village, the castelneuvois work to enhance and safeguard it. A medieval festival, organized every two years, even allows to live again during a weekend in the Middle Ages. It is in this desire that the municipality of Châteauneuf-du-Rhône wishes to host a workcamp of young international volunteers in order to carry out work on the botanical path, access path to the high ramparts of the town.
💼 What the programme involves
Like any medieval village, Châteauneuf-du-Rhône is surrounded by ramparts. If the ramparts at the bottom have become the facades of the houses, the ramparts at the top are still visible on the hillside. A few years ago, the town transformed the access road to the high ramparts into a botanical path. Located on the hillside, it has never really been completed and today is cource of danger for its users. You will therefore be responsible for the maintenance of the botanical path: in particular at the entrance to the path, by constructing a supporting wall, repair of the steps in donkey steps , you will widen the path by identifying the parts to be fixed, leveling of the stone parts. In a second step, you will participate alongside a local association in the planting of the various vegetals and work on their development (botanical display, choice of locations ...). You will be supervised by the technical agents of the municipality and local volunteers. Your work will allow local people and visitors to take this path of character again. You will be accommodated 15 minutes walk from the site, so you will get there on foot and work 4 to 5 hours per day.
🏠 Accommodation on site
You will be accommodated in the multipurpose room located outside the ramparts and in the center of the village. You will have at your disposal a shower, toilets and a fitted kitchen. The room will serve you as sleeping space (individual mattresses) and living space. In front of the entrance you can have a table and chairs to eat outside if you wish and will be out of sight. A pétanque court and a nearby playground are available. Located 6 minutes from the supermarket, you can go shopping on your own. You will also have local shops located within a 5-minute walk from your accommodation (bakery, post office, bar, pizzeria). You will cook collectively and take part in daily tasks (wash dishes, cleaning).
📍 About the location
Located between two hills and bordering the Rhône river, Châteaneuf-du-Rhône offers an appreciable living environment. Near Drôme Provencale and Ardèche, this Drôme village has 2,000 inhabitants. You can stroll through the narrow streets of the old town to discover the emblematic monuments of the city including the Mansion of Arlempdes. By following the ViaRhôna route, you can go to Viviers and visit the old center, whose cathedral overlooks the Rhône valley and the Donzère pass. Meeting times with residents of the town will be organized (pétanque initiation, American football initiation, guided city tour). Châteauneuf-du-Rhône also has a municipal swimming pool. Volunteers will also organize discovery activities of the territory and the local terroir. Finally, a meeting time can be arranged with a neighboring workcamp (Viviers) and young people from the territory can also come and carry out activities with you).
ℹ️ Additional information
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